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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






2. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






3. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






4. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






5. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






6. The time and place of a story or play.






7. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






8. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






9. The organizational form of a literary work.






10. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






11. What a story or play is about.






12. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






13. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






14. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






15. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






16. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






17. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






18. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






19. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






20. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






21. The person who 'tells' the story.






22. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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23. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






24. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






25. A three-line stanza.






26. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






27. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






28. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






29. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






30. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






31. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






32. A four line stanza in a poem.






33. A character struggles against some outside force.






34. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






35. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






36. A short saying with a moral.






37. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






38. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






39. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






40. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






41. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






42. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






43. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






44. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






45. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






46. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






47. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






48. The dictionary meaning of a word.






49. A strong pause within a line.






50. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.